Base App by Coinbase Is Live for Everyone, Secured by XMTP: Create, Earn, and Trade — All in Chat
The Base App is officially live to the world.
Base App isn’t just another crypto app. It’s a social and economic Superapp where you can create, earn, trade, and discover—all inside DMs and group chats.
Chat is not just a feature but a foundation for users to interact, talk with agents, and share mini apps to play in groups. All built on a global money rail. Send money, predict with friends, invest together - all within a secure group chat.
Messaging and money are coming together to unlock infinite possibilities for builders and users globally.
Chat is the new App Store
Thousands of mini-apps are now built on XMTP and Base App. Chat is where mini apps live and get discovered. The best part about mini-apps is that you don't have to sign up for a new app, you can use the wallet you already have on Base, and now you can solve the cold start problem by using it with the group chat you already have. Use any app with friends, zero friction to onboard, sign up, add money, or find friends.
Inside conversations:
- Mini apps are discovered organically
- Trading happens in real time
- Money moves instantly
- Groups coordinate, play, and build together
For users, this feels natural—everything happens where conversations already are.
For builders, it unlocks an entirely new programmable surface area: the group chat.
Instead of fighting for attention in an app store, apps spread through the group social graph, shared directly in conversations.
Agents Live Natively in Chat
Base App brings agents directly into the chat. One of my favorite examples is Bankr.
Add @Bankr to a group chat and you can:
- Send money instantly to everyone in the group
- Launch a token with friends
- Discover and interact with prediction markets
Agents aren’t external tools anymore, they’re first-class participants in the chat—able to read context, take action, and move value seamlessly.
Bankr was part of 20,000+ DMs and Group chats in the Base App during beta.
Discover Mini Apps
Mini apps in Base App run inside conversations.
App discovery means apps can be:
- Opened directly from chat
- Shared with a group in one tap
- Used collaboratively, in real time
- Show who in the group is using the app
Users never leave the conversation, and discovery is social by default. Group chat is the social graph.
Instead of links getting lost or apps fighting for installs, mini apps meet users exactly where they already are—inside their trusted groups.
XMTP is Secure Chat Anyone Can Build On
All of this is powered by XMTP, the decentralized messaging protocol securing the world's freedom to communicate.
Base App is live today and secured by XMTP. Build where the conversation is happening.
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